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[QUOTE]Originally posted by claus3600: [QB] [QUOTE] The Haussa have a story of a hero slaying a serpent man who was keeping the Haussa people from using water from the well. [/QUOTE]In the Somali children's story The Ogress and the Snake, a large serpent living in a water hole deters a family of abandoned sisters from drawing water. Rather than take the long walk to the river, the youngest decides to take her chances with the well and promptly gets attacked by the snake. Her sisters rescue her and in the commotion, gold is revealed at the bottom of the water hole. The next day, the eldest sister uses meat as bait to draw the snake from the well, and decapitates it. 'The she jumped down into the water and began to pick up the gold. There was so much that she couldn't carry it all. "Come and help me!" she called to the others. "We're rich!We're rich! We'll never be hungry again!"' The Ogress and the Snake and other Stories from Somalia Retold by Elizabeth Laird 2009 [/QB][/QUOTE]
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